Sunday’s weather is expected to be mainly hot and sunny, tempered by the possible occasional rain shower or storm in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to a scorching 39 degrees Celsius inland, 34 degrees Celsius on the southeast and east coasts, 37 degrees Celsius on the north coast, 33 degrees Celsius on the rest of […]
Various world leaders on Saturday condemned the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania in which the former president was shot in the right ear, while one rally attendee and the shooter were left dead. Leaders from multiple nations expressed shock at the incident, denounced political violence and wished Trump a quick recovery. A spokesperson […]
Slick-looking Spain go up against belatedly blossoming England in a mouth-watering conclusion to the European Championship on Sunday as the final promises a fitting finish to a month of absorbing action across Germany. Both teams came into the tournament with valid ambitions of making it all the way to the decider at Berlin’s Olympiastadion and six matches […]
Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 8: Cypriot tech-driven analytics firm Ask Wire released a comprehensive assessment on Monday of fire risk in the Larnaca District, highlighting the distribution of properties within various fire hazard zones. The analysis, covering Larnaca’s 1,120.10 square kilometre area, revealed that the district […]
The Wimbledon men’s singles final between defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and second seed Novak Djokovic takes place at the All England Club on Sunday. The mixed doubles finals will also be contested. THRILLING FINAL REMATCH ON THE CARDS Three-times Grand Slam champion Alcaraz landed in Wimbledon as the title favourite following his French Open triumph last month but few expected Djokovic to go […]
Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her and her mission impossible proved impossible. Hitherto, the approach has been to seek a comprehensive settlement from day one under the formula that nothing is agreed […]
THE NEXT personal envoy the UN Secretary General sends to find common ground will have to be a shrink, now that Maria Angela Holguin has established that the reasons there has been no solution to the Cyprob are psychological. In her heartfelt farewell letter to Kyproulla, Holguin said that she had to resort to neuroscience […]
On Monday Cyprus will mark the 50th anniversary of the coup against Archbishop Makarios and on Saturday the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion that followed it and led to the occupation of 37 per cent of the Cyprus Republic’s territory. Since August 16, 1974, when the second offensive by Turkish troops was completed and […]
By Maria Demertzis When the extreme right party National Rally won first place in the European elections earlier this June, President Emmanuel Macron felt that confidence in the governing coalition was seriously compromised. His party took only 15 per cent of the vote, compared to 32 per cent for the NR. Macron therefore called snap […]
Donald Trump was shot in the ear during a Saturday campaign rally, in an attack that left the Republican presidential candidate’s face streaked with blood and prompted his security agents to swarm him, before he emerged and pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The shooter was dead, one rally […]
Global hydroelectric generation slumped to a five-year low last year as a result of lower-than-average rainfall across China, North America and India, contributing to record fossil fuel combustion and emissions in 2023. Global hydro generation amounted to 4,240 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2023 down from a record 4,359 billion kWh in 2020, according to the […]
Microsoft (MSFT.O) has ditched the board observer seat at OpenAI that has drawn regulatory scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, saying it was not necessary after the AI start-up’s governance had improved significantly in the past eight months. Apple (AAPL.O), which last month announced bringing OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT to its devices, would not take […]
The July 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus were tragic in themselves but what’s even more tragic is that 50 years later, the prospects for a solution are at the lowest they’ve ever been. The July 15 coup plotters’ short-sighted and disastrous goal to overthrow Archbishop Makarios gave Turkey the excuse to invade […]